GitHub announced at the 2016 GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco a major platform update featuring a number of improvements including the introduction of Projects, availability of Reviews on all pull requests, early access to Integrations, and early access to the GitHub GraphQL API.

Gowalla, the location aware social networking service, has announced the release of their first public API (our Gowalla API profile). This will help them keep up with other location-centric social services like Foursquare's new API.